We saw first-hand the increasing convergence of advanced information technologies and the life sciences here in San Diego last week. The trend was evident in the formation of a new institute for wireless healthcare, and in a roundtable discussion about personal medicine at UC San Diego that highlighted the need for easy access to electronic health records. Those stories, and the rest of the region’s BizTech news, below.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsored a roundtable discussion about personalized health care at UC San Diego as a way to map future funding and research priorities through 2020. But that future could arrive sooner, as the federal government plans to spend more than $19 billion on electronic health records.